The CORC Forum is CORC's flagship event each year with a large amount of attendees. It brings together members and colleagues from the mental health, research and education sectors, featuring inspirational and knowledgeable speakers around useful topics, which inspires discussion. It is ideal for expanding your knowledge of mental health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people: based on experience and research.
[Reflections from last year’s forum can be found here].
This year the CORC Forum takes places on Thursday 20 November 2025, 09:30 to 13:30.
Attendance is free to CORC members, with a fee of just £50 for non-members. Many of you attend each year, and we of course welcome anyone who hasn’t been before too.
This will be an online event, making it easily accessible to those across the UK and other countries.
2025 CORC Forum speakers and agenda
We are delighted to announce that Professor Eamon McCrory, Anna Freud’s CEO and Professor of Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology at UCL, will be our keynote speaker this year.
Eamon has led Anna Freud’s since September 2024, having long served as its Co-Director of the Clinical, and Education and Training teams. He is also a co-founder and Co-Director of the UK Trauma Council and a Professor at UCL.
His talk will explore ‘Trauma and the social world’. Eamon has undertaken extensive research exploring the complex relationship between the development of the brain, childhood trauma, the social world and mental health, including recent work exploring the impacts of verbal abuse on children’s brains, perceptions and relationships.
The full agenda will be shared via our newsletter during September, and will also include new research findings from work to identify the drivers of child mental health holistically and by linking key national data-sets. We are delighted that some CORC members will be sharing their recent work to use evidence and evaluation to the benefit of their services and support for children young people, and we will be providing an update on recent developments at CORC more widely - including launching our Neurodiversity guidance for using outcome measures with children and young people, and more.
Make sure you have the date in your diary, and use the booking link to secure your place(s).
Please note: the number of spaces available may be restricted if required to keep numbers manageable.
Cost
| Full members | Associate members | Non-members |
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Free
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Free
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£50
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